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    All You Need Is Cash (The Rutles) (1978)

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    Starting out as a two-minute sketch on Idle’s post-Monty Python comedy show, Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles took on a life of their own when Saturday Night Live supremo Lorne Michaels produced a feature-length “mockumentary” on the rise and fall of the Prefab Four.

    A brilliantly realised parody of The Beatles, All You Need Is Cash told the story of Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry and their figure-hugging strides and took specific episodes of the moptops’ existence and lampooned them with style and hilarity.

    Eric Idle played Dirk (modelled after Paul McCartney), Ricky Fataar played Stig (the George Harrison-inspired character), Neil Innes played Ron Nasty (based on John Lennon) and John Halsey was Barry Wom (real name Barrington Womble). The character’s truncated name was a play on how Ringo changed his name from Richard Starkey to Ringo Starr.

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    Whereas John Lennon said The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, Ron Nasty claims his band are bigger than God – only he’s been misheard and he means Rod, as in Stewart, who won’t be big for several years.

    Cameos from the likes of Mick and Bianca Jagger, Paul Simon, George Harrison himself, Ron Wood, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray (as disc jockey Bill Murray The K) added to the fun, but the pieces de resistance were Neil Innes’ wonderful songs (Ouch!, Please Please Hold My Hand, Get Up And Go), affectionately packed with instantly recognisable Beatles motifs.

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    Ron Nasty
    Neil Innes
    Dirk McQuickly

    Eric Idle
    Stig O’Hara

    Ricky Fataar
    Barrington ‘Barry Wom’ Womble
    John Halsey
    Leggy Mountbatten
    Terence Bayler
    Narrator
    Eric Idle
    Eric Manchester
    Michael Palin
    Archie MaCaw
    Frank Williams
    Dick Jaws
    Barry Cryer
    Adrian Jons
    Dan Aykroyd
    Ron Decline
    John Belushi
    Martini
    Bianca Jagger
    Chastity/Mrs Iris Mountbatten
    Gwen Taylor
    Penelope
    Penelope Tree
    H.M. the Queen
    Jeanette Charles
    Leppo
    Ollie Halsall
    Bill Murray the K
    Bill Murray
    Mrs Emily Pules
    Gilda Radner
    Blind Lemon Pye
    Jerome Green
    Rambling Orange Peel
    Bob Gibson
    Mrs Peel
    Pat Perkins
    Interviewer
    George Harrison
    Stanley J. Krammerhead III Jnr
    Eric Idle
    Mick Jagger
    Himself
    Paul Simon
    Himself
    Arthur Sultan
    Henry Wood
    Roger McGough
    Himself
    Hells Angel
    Ron Wood

    Director
    Gary Weis
    Eric Idle

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